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CarMax drives business value with GPT-3.5

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x natural language model on pilots before Microsoft’s well publicized $10 billion investment in the nonprofit at the outset of 2023. Data is the core of everything we’re doing because it feeds our machine learning algorithm that feeds our AI capability,” he says. In this early use case, the CarMax team employed GPT 3.5’s

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Inside the secretive Silicon Valley startup trying to save the oceans with tech

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In rapid succession, Oceankind provided three grants totaling almost $2 million to iterate the robot’s design, add machine learning capabilities and transform it into a multi-functional autonomous underwater reef restoration system , intuitive enough to be operated by citizen scientists. Casting a wide net for science.

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TechCrunch+ Roundup: App Store growth tactics, changing SaaS models, ‘AI-induced frenzy’

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Image Credits: Getty Images For her latest Deal Dive column, Rebecca Szkutak profiled Tel Aviv–based IVIX, which “uses AI, machine learning and public databases” to track tax cheats and other bad actors. The company launched in 2020, and co-founders Matan Fattal and Doron Passov recently closed a $12.5

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Subak, which incubates data-for-climate not-for-profits, announces six startups in 2022 cohort

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based incubator focused on nonprofit startups that are addressing climate-related challenges through open-source data initiatives has announced the six startups which will be put through its 2022 program. The startup’s goal is to be able to provide rich, real-time analytics to local policymakers, conservation groups, NGOs, etc.

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The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It?

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We are starting to see the payoff of radically new approaches to biomedical innovation, and in particular, the way that machine learning is turbocharging research. During 2020, more than 21,000 biomedical research papers made reference to AI and machine learning. First, the required skills are different. When Arthur C.

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The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

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Would each company be spending 55% of net revenue on driver incentives, passenger discounts, sales, and marketing to acquire passengers and drivers faster than the other? It can also apply to large companies, governments, and even nonprofits. Would these companies now be profitable instead of hemorrhaging billions of dollars a year ?

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This startup is setting a DALL-E 2-like AI free, consequences be damned

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billion images scraped from the internet. (“LAION” stands for Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network, a nonprofit organization with the goal of making AI, datasets and code available to the public.) .” Mostque says that Stability AI funded the creation of LAION 5B, an open source, 250-terabyte dataset containing 5.6